Internally, the Maoists have the most intriguing and elaborate network, comprising lawyers, doctors, saffron clad religious activists, professors, so-called intellectuals, media personnel, and film personalities; all working under the guise of human rights organizations, and civil right groups.
A saffron clad activist on his recent visit to Chhattisgarh to negotiate with the Maoists for the release of five abducted policemen, surprised everyone when he embraced gun-toting Maoist cadres, he then raised his fist and roared “Bhartiya Communist Party, Maowadi, Lal Salam”. The response was deafening.
The external linkages and the white-collared criminal activities of these Maoist facilitators is well established in the intelligence-agencies and the home ministry. When quizzed by this author, as to why the government is not putting them behind the bars, a senior functionary of the home ministry cited the example of a professor who organizes rallies in the capital whenever demanded by the underground Maoist leadership. He further added that the husband of this professor is a well-known journalist who hobnobs with the mighty and the wealthy in the corridors of power.
The Maoists have also infiltrated the security and administrative establishment. It is a fact that many abductions of police and administrative personnel has been with their connivance and is a part of well-orchestrated campaign to achieve the aims and objectives of the Maoists. Many of these abductions, like the hostage crisis in Bihar, was being orchestrated from Delhi. The statement to the effect “they chatted with us and we sang songs together….”, by one of the police personnel who was recently abducted by the Maoists in Chhattisgarh speaks volumes.
The enemy in form of Maoists and their sympathizers has been growing right under the nose of the Indian establishment. This enemy now talks of liberated zones and Maoist territory. This enemy calls itself Peoples War Group (PWG). This enemy has links with China and Pakistan. This enemy has now emerged as the new mining mafia. This enemy is into opium cultivation and smuggling of drugs. This enemy destroys schools, hospitals, communication towers and does not allow infrastructure development to take place. This enemy is recruiting child soldiers. No other terrorist outfit in the world as this enemy has as much access and availability to explosives.
In the rural areas of the Red Corridor, such is the terror of this enemy that people are migrating to nearby towns and cities because of which price of urban properties have soared beyond the reach of the middle-class. The methods of terror of this enemy are even more cruel than that of Taliban. The gruesome manner in which Inspector Tete and Inspector Induvar were killed bears testimony. The difference between the Dawood group and this enemy is that the latter carries the ‘Red flag’, the colour, which we Indians have been psychologically brought up to recognize as another stream of politics. The Maoists, who believe in the Mao’s dictum, “power flows through the barrel of the gun”, do not tolerate any other political stream.
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The Maoists did try to eliminate Budhadev Bhatacharya and Chandrababu Naidu. If a chief minister were to be abducted by the Maoists, the security discourse of the country with regard to Maoism would be different. And when this stage of the Maoist war against India arrives, the state apparatus would not be in a position to salvage India from the Maoists.
Therefore, if the Orissa government concedes to the Maoist demands for release of RV Krishna, it would have contributed in a big measure to the Maoist takeover of this country. The government cannot throw the same people, who elected it to power to the wolves.
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